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WIRE WRAPPING 0R COVERING MACHINE. No. 278,099. Patents 22,1883.

WITNESSES N. PETERS. Plwwmhu n ner. Washmgiun, D t.

UNITED STATES, PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES GONNER, (it New YORK, N. Y.

WIRE WRAPPING OR i COVERlNG MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lette To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES GoNNER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Wire Wrapping or Covering Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a will meet or overlapeach other alongthe length of the wire, and then around this strip and the wire is wound spirallyanother strip of rubber, which latter is done by meansof a reel which is carried around the wire, the first strip being applied by drawing the wire and strip together through a suitable eye formed in a fixed eye-plate, which eye closes the strip over the wire. The reel for spirally winding the wire is carried around the wire, preferably by means of a revolving disk situated immediately in the rear of the said fixed eye-plate, through the center of which disk the wire passes into a sleeve which compacts, smooths, and finishes the covering. The disk is journaled upon the end of this sleeve. The eyeplate has a revolving bushing, of rubber or similar material, for preventing injury of the strip of rubber from coming in contact with the eye-plate, and the sleeve has interchangeable bushings, of Babbitt metal or similar material, to suit wires of different sizes and strips of different thicknesses. The strip or ribbon first applied to the wire is fed off from a reel attached to theeyeplate, or to'some other stationary object, and thence passes through suit able guides, which turn or roll up the edges of the strip before it reaches the wire and eye, and the wire itself is drawn from a primary reel through the eye and sleeve by means of rubber rollers placed immediately in the rear of the sleeve, from which rollers it passes, completel y covered, to the final winding drum or reel at theend of' themachine.

,1 Application filed April 8, 1882. (No model.)

atent No. 278,099, dated May 22, 1883.

Motion is imparted to all of the moving parts of the machine by suitable gearing, which will 1 be hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.-

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my wire wrapping or covering machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a detailed face view of the upper end of the eye-plate; and Fig.- 4 is a detailed sectional view of the sleeve, showing the bushing thereof.

A represents the eye-plate; B, the revolving disk which carries the reel 0; D, the horizontal sleeve upon which the disk B is journaled, and E E represent the rubber rollers by which the wire F is drawn from the primary reel G through the eye-plate and sleeve, and delivered, after being covered, to the drum H at the rear of the machine, which drum is turned by the belt J, leading from a pulley fixed upon one end of the main power-shaft K,which shaftis journaled in the rear extensions, to (t, of

part of the machine. I

The power part of the machine consists of the cog-wheel M, secured upon the main power-shaft K, the large cog-wheel N, secured upon one end of the shaft 0 of the rubber roller E, which is journaled in the side plates, L L, which large cog-wheel meshes with the wheel M, the large beveled cog-wheel P, secured upon the other end of the said shaft 0, which cogwheel meshes with the beveled horizontal gear Q upon the vertical shaft R, thelarge beveled cog-wheel S, secured upon said vertical shaft, which cog-wheel meshes with the beveled cogwheel T upon the horizontal shaft U, the cogwheel V, which is secured upon the said shaft U and drives the cog-wheel W, and the pulley.

of the rubber rollers upon the wire.

The disk 13, which, as above mentioned, is journaled upon the forward end of the horizontal sleeve D, receives motion from the pulley X, through the band j, which passes over the pulley X, and the pulley 1), formed upon the rear face of the disk, and the said sleeve D is held in horizontal position on a line with the eye a of the eye-plate A and the point of contact with each other of the rubber rollers E E by the support D and the plate H, held between the forward extensions, 0 0, of the side plates, L L, of the main frame, as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

Inside of the sleeve D is placed the tubular bushing 12, of Babbitt metal or similar material, which has a longitudinal passage through it of a diameter about equal to or a little less i than the diameter of the wire after the ribbons or rubber shall have been applied thereto.

There will be several of these bushings, which i will be interchangeable with each other, with different-sized passages through them to suit wires of different sizes and various thicknesses 1 of covering.

The eye-plate A is recessed or countersunk around the eye a, as shown at g, to receive and hold the bushing h for protecting the ribbon j, of rubber, as it passes through the eye. This bushing is preferably formed of the two pieces of rubber tubing 0 0, placed upon the bent wires or small rods it It, the two being adapted to be placed together and put in the recess or countersink g and retained by the buttons t i, or by any other suitable means, so that the tubes 0 0 will revolve on the wires or rods k as the covered wire passes through the eye.

(3 is the tension device secured to the disk B, through which the ribbon j, as it winds off from the reel 0, passes, and serves as a means for regulating the tightness with which the ribbon will be wound upon the wire; and it consists of a suitable metal plate slotted so as to form several bars over and under more or less of which the ribbon is to be passed, according to the tension required.

In front of the eye-plate A is secured the reel G, upon which the ribbon j, which is wrapped or folded around the wire first, is held, and above this reel, between it and the eye a of the eye-plate, are secured to the eye-plate the guides f f, through which the ribbon passes as it leaves the reel G, and which are so formed as to roll or turn up the edges of the ribbon, as clearly illustrated in the drawings, to properly fold over and around the wire F as the ribbon and wire pass through the eye a.

Upon the rear side of the eye-plate, immediately below the eye a, is secured the fric- Lion-roller g, which serves to support the wire and first wrapping and prevent the same from sagging as they pass from the eye to the sleeve D, as will be clearly understood from Fig. 1.

In use the wire to be covered will be placed upon the primary reel G, and the reels'U and G will be filled with the ribbons j j of rubber or other material, to be applied to the wire, and the end of the ribbon j and the end of the wire will be passed by the hands of the attandant first through the eye a of the eye- 5 plate, (the ribbon having first been placed in the guides f,) and then, together with the ribbon "l j, through the sleeve D and between the rollers E and E, and then attached to the drum H, where they will be held until abelt (coming i from a shaft or any motor) is passed from the loose pulley J to the pulley F, which is fixed 1: upon the mainshaft K of the machine. This, through the gearing above described, will impart rotary motion to the rollers E E, reel H, and the disk B, which will carry the reel 0 around the wire, and will cause the rollers E l E to draw the wire and ribbons slowly through i the guides f, eye a, andthe sleeve. The guides wrapped or folded around the wire, and the reel 0, moving around the wire and covering j, will cause the ribbon j to be wound spirally around the covering j and the wire. In passing through the bushing 12 of the sleeve D (the proper bushing to suit the size of wire and the thickness of the ribbons having been selected and placed in the sleeve) the bushing will compress and smooth down the coverin g and close the same firmly upon the wire and give the covering a smooth and proper finish.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with the plate A, provided with the eye a for folding the covering on the wire, of the sleeve D, the disk 13, journaled on the said sleeve, the reel G, secured to the disk, and mechanism for revolving the disk and reel, as set forth.

2. The combination, with the eye-plate A and the rubber rollers E E, of the sleeve D, the disk B, the reel 0, and mechanism, substantially as described, for rotating the said rollers and revolving the reel, as set forth.

3. The combination, with the eye-plate A, the reel G, and the guides f, of the reel 0, tension device 0, and mechanism, substantially'as shown and described, for revolving the reel 0 and drawing the wire through the eye-plate, as set forth.

4. The combination, with the revolving reel O, of the tension device 0, substantially as 7. The bushing for the eye a, formed of described. the bent wires or rods 70 k, covered with 5. The combination, with the eye-plate A, the rubber tubing 0 o, substantially as delormed with the eye a, of the guides f f, scribed. 5 substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

6. The combination, with the plate A, pro- CHARLES CONNEB. vided with the eye a, of rotating bushing" arranged insaid eye for protecting the rib- Witnesses: bon or rubber covering, substantially as iie- H.A. WEST,

1o scribed. O. SEDGWIGK. 

